Manchester United turn their attention
to the League Cup on Tuesday having
narrowly avoided slipping up at home
in the Premier League to Stoke City.
David Moyes's side entertain Norwich
City having come back from behind
twice to win 3-2 at Old Trafford on
Saturday.
That relieved plenty of pressure on
Alex Ferguson's successor, although
United are still only eighth in the table,
and United manager Moyes made no
secret of the fact he wants to go all the
way in the League Cup as well as
challenge for the more prestigious
trophies.
"My idea was to come here and win all
the trophies," said Moyes, after
Ferguson insisted recently that
winning any silverware in his first
season in charge would represent a
major achievement for his fellow Scot.
"From the first day I've set out to win
everything I possibly can and if I come
up short with some of that we'll find
out at the end.
"My thought is to win everything I go
for, every trophy we win and every
game we play. So that's the plan.
"I don't how many years it was before
Sir Alex won his first trophy - maybe
four years (Ferguson took charge at
Old Trafford in November 1986 but
didn't win his first trophy with the club
until the 1990 FA Cup) - and I think
someone told me Sir Alex went seven
years before he won his first Premier
League title (in the 1992/93 season).
"And he is the most successful
manager in the land by a long, long
way. It just shows you, it can take time
to get things right. It certainly did for
Sir Alex."
"I don't how many years it
was before Sir Alex won his
first trophy - maybe four
years."
"Manchester United manager
David Moyes".
Javier Hernandez scored the winner
against Stoke and the Mexico forward
is likely to be given the opportunity to
stake his claim for more regular first
team against Norwich.
The Stoke goal was the 25-year-old's
first league goal of the campaign and
his only other goal this season came in
the last round of the League Cup when
United beat Liverpool 1-0.
"I hope he can play from the start," said
Moyes. "We had to change, we got him
on to try and find another way of
scoring.
"We have got a squad of first team
players who are all capable of playing,
everyone is used to that, the crowd see
that and expect it. We will see what we
have got. We have one or two knocks
and niggles, which we will assess. But
we are beginning to tick along, quite
quietly."
Norwich will travel north with
problems of their own as an inability to
take chances has left them in the
relegation places.
Norwich are back in Manchester at the
weekend for a league game with
Manchester City and Fer insisted he
was looking forward to the difficult
double header.
"It's going to be a hard week with two
big games but we want to go to the
next round so we will try to win the
game in Manchester on Tuesday," he
said.
"It's a different game because it's a cup
game. We played really well against
Cardiff and we need to take that to
Manchester."
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